Disney urged to rehire James Gunn by celebrities and fan petitions

On Thursday, right wing Twitter personality Mike Cernovich started posting a series of James Gunn's old tweets, which Gunn soon deleted.

Gunn has been working on the script for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3", and the movie was expected to begin shooting in Atlanta in the fall for an expected 2020 release date, though Marvel Studios had never officially announced the date.

"Really, it was two men who were the most comforting to me in saying, 'You'll be safe, you'll be OK, '" Blair told The Hollywood Reporter in February. The Grey director Joe Carnahan and Ant-Man and the Wasp star David Dastmalchian also shared and signed the James Gunn petition. You have shown strength of character more than most anyone I know.

"If people are punished despite changing, then what does that teach people about owning mistakes and evolving?" the 46-year-old tweeted over the weekend. "This man is one of the good ones". "They do it for the sake of others, for the future, and for justice".

Chris didn't directly reference the controversy, but he tweeted out a bible verse from the book of James that deals with the issue. You can check out the posts from Selma Blair's Twitter account for yourself below.

Gunn's brother Sean Gunn, who also appeared in GOTG, expressed his love in a series of tweets, saying "Since devoting his entire life to the Guardians movies and MCU six years ago, I've seen him channel that voice into his work on those movies and seen him transform from the guy who made up things to shock people..."